{"author_name":"Henry McLaughlin","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"September 6, 2009 7:54 am","epoch":1252241640,"text":"I don’t know about Gosu, but I’ve successfully built windows executables from Ruby\/RubyGame using tar2rubyscript and rubyscript2exe (both exceedingly awesome gems). It’s not the best (e.g. it’s not Py2exe) but it works pretty well.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"September 6, 2009 12:34 pm","epoch":1252258440,"text":"I’ve definitely had great luck using rubyscript2exe on Gosu games too.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"MrDude","time":"September 6, 2009 2:36 pm","epoch":1252265760,"text":"I’m using Linux. I don’t have full access to a Windows machine.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1252226520,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"72455","p_author":"Henry McLaughlin","p_authorkey":"979","p_urlkey":"108277","p_title":"Preparing for Mini-LD 12","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1252226520","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"4","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"979","us_name":"Henry Mclaughlin","us_username":"pycron","event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"text":"

I know it’s just under a week away, but I’ve got some ideas for my Mini-LD 12 game.<\/p>\n

First of all, I’m going to use another programming language I’m unfamiliar with. It’s a fun challenge. This time, I’ll be using Ruby.<\/p>\n

I’ve used it before, but not often, even though I really enjoy it. This gives me a chance to really get familiar with it.<\/p>\n

My library of choice here is Ruby\/SDL. I’ll fiddle with gosu\/RubyGame at a later time.<\/p>\n

Also, I will be using nothing but my netbook for development. I want to see how it fares with development, and Ruby is a good starting point for that.<\/p>\n

As far as genre goes, I’m thinking about making a tile-based side-scroller. Something akin to the shareware of yesteryear.<\/p>\n

I want to use an 8-bit pallette to give the game that classic shareware look.<\/p>\n

I will also be using SFXR (Like most of us, I suppose) for sounds.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure about music. I don’t think I’ll really have time, but we’ll see.<\/p>\n

I may need a Windows port again, but I’m not completely sure how to convert a Ruby application into a native executable. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to this one.<\/p>\n

—Mr. Dude<\/p>","time":"September 6th, 2009 3:42 am","title":"Preparing for Mini-LD 12"}